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<center>''Are you looking for [[Halo: The Cole Protocol]], the sixth Halo novel?''</center> | <center>''Are you looking for [[Halo: The Cole Protocol]], the sixth Halo novel?''</center> | ||
{{Quote|It would take ''years'' to ram this down the throats of the politicians, but as far as my battle group was concerned it was ''law''.|Admiral Cole on his first draft of the Cole Protocol.<ref name="HWG">'''Halo Wars: Genesis''', ''page 8''</ref>}} | {{Quote|It would take ''years'' to ram this down the throats of the politicians, but as far as my battle group was concerned it was ''law''.|Admiral Cole on his first draft of the Cole Protocol.<ref name="HWG">'''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''', ''page 8''</ref>}} | ||
'''Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1''', also called '''General Order 098831A-1''' and known commonly as the '''Cole Protocol''', was a [[United Nations Space Command]] directive enacted by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] to prevent the [[Covenant]] from discovering the [[human]] homeworld and [[Unified Earth Government|colonial]] capital, [[Earth]], or any other [[Inner Colonies|inner colony]] world. In practice, it was intended to prevent Covenant's retrieval of data that contained the location of Earth; it forbade retreating vessels from setting a direct [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] course toward any human population center, as the Covenant were able to track slipspace travel vectors and calculate the evacuating ship's destination. The policy also stated that to prevent capture, any military or civilian vessel, in the event of an emergency evacuation, was to self-destruct, after wiping all data matrices, to prevent the advance of the Covenant. | '''Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1''', also called '''General Order 098831A-1''' and known commonly as the '''Cole Protocol''', was a [[United Nations Space Command]] directive enacted by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] to prevent the [[Covenant]] from discovering the [[human]] homeworld and [[Unified Earth Government|colonial]] capital, [[Earth]], or any other [[Inner Colonies|inner colony]] world. In practice, it was intended to prevent Covenant's retrieval of data that contained the location of Earth; it forbade retreating vessels from setting a direct [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] course toward any human population center, as the Covenant were able to track slipspace travel vectors and calculate the evacuating ship's destination. The policy also stated that to prevent capture, any military or civilian vessel, in the event of an emergency evacuation, was to self-destruct, after wiping all data matrices, to prevent the advance of the Covenant. | ||
All UNSC personnel were commanded to read the Cole Protocol each day "by the letter" under an [[UNSC Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1 (transmission)|emergency transmission]] issued by the [[UNSC Naval Command|Naval Command]]. The Cole Protocol ensured that in nearly twenty-seven years of interstellar warfare, the Covenant never discovered the human presence on Earth, and only found other population centers either by accident, by tracking devices left aboard ships,<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page | All UNSC personnel were commanded to read the Cole Protocol each day "by the letter" under an [[UNSC Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1 (transmission)|emergency transmission]] issued by the [[UNSC Naval Command|Naval Command]]. The Cole Protocol ensured that in nearly twenty-seven years of interstellar warfare, the Covenant never discovered the human presence on Earth, and only found other population centers either by accident, by tracking devices left aboard ships,<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', Chapter 23, ''page 216'' (2001 paperback); ''page 247'' (2010 paperback)</ref> or by the presence of [[Forerunner]] artifacts via [[Luminary]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5yso8d3gA '''Youtube''' ''- Halo 2: Anniversary Prologue Terminal 1 - Beholden'']</ref> Unfortunately, the Cole Protocol ceased to be effective when, on [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], Covenant forces invaded Earth; however, the protocol presumably remained in effect for the other remaining Inner Colonies. | ||
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#All UNSC and civilian which come in contact with alien assets must have NAV computer/AI erased--destroyed if necessary--to prevent capture of core world locations. | #All UNSC and civilian which come in contact with alien assets must have NAV computer/AI erased--destroyed if necessary--to prevent capture of core world locations. | ||
#ALL Human vessels fleeing from alien forces must do so on a randomly generated vector away from UNSC core world locations. | #ALL Human vessels fleeing from alien forces must do so on a randomly generated vector away from UNSC core world locations. | ||
#ONI Section II to immediately begin Slipstream space attenuated broadcast of pre-recorded human carrier signals from antiquity to prevent triangulation of Earth.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''' | #ONI Section II to immediately begin Slipstream space attenuated broadcast of pre-recorded human carrier signals from antiquity to prevent triangulation of Earth.<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 468'' (2009 paperpack); ''page 318'' (2010 Volume 1 paperback)</ref> | ||
==The protocol== | ==The protocol== | ||
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<blockquote>''No captured Covenant craft may be taken to human controlled space without an exhaustive search for tracking systems that could lead the Covenant to Human bases.''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''No captured Covenant craft may be taken to human controlled space without an exhaustive search for tracking systems that could lead the Covenant to Human bases.''</blockquote> | ||
Subsection 7 dictates that captured Covenant matériel and ships may not be taken back to human-controlled space due to concerns that they might contain tracking devices; as such, it is likely part of Article 4. Bringing a Covenant weapon back to any UNSC installation or Inner Colony is considered an act of treason.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 99''</ref> [[SPARTAN-III Program|SPARTAN]] [[Emile-A239]] possessed a large [[keepsake|collection]] of contraband Covenant equipment which he acquired in the field. While possessing this matériel was a gross violation of Subsection 7, his superior, [[UNSC Army]] [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]], refused to report the Spartan; Holland claimed that the Army does not need to follow Navy protocol. The SPARTAN-IIs had standing orders from the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] to seize Covenant weapons and technology whenever possible.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page | Subsection 7 dictates that captured Covenant matériel and ships may not be taken back to human-controlled space due to concerns that they might contain tracking devices; as such, it is likely part of Article 4. Bringing a Covenant weapon back to any UNSC installation or Inner Colony is considered an act of treason.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', Chapter 10, ''page 99''</ref> [[SPARTAN-III Program|SPARTAN]] [[Emile-A239]] possessed a large [[keepsake|collection]] of contraband Covenant equipment which he acquired in the field. While possessing this matériel was a gross violation of Subsection 7, his superior, [[UNSC Army]] [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]], refused to report the Spartan; Holland claimed that the Army does not need to follow Navy protocol. The SPARTAN-IIs had standing orders from the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] to seize Covenant weapons and technology whenever possible.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', Chapter 20, ''page 182'' (2001 paperback); ''page 209'' (2010 paperback)</ref> | ||
Few have even heard of Subsection 7; it was little more than a technicality before ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' was captured by SPARTAN [[John-117]] and his team soon after the [[Battle of Installation 04]]. This was due to the chances of capturing even a severely crippled Covenant ship being minuscule, as the ship's crew would usually activate their self-destruct function before the completion of such attempts. Because ''Ascendant Justice'' could not be thoroughly searched, John-117 and ONI [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] instead planned to take the ship to Reach, which had already been compromised by the Covenant, and then try to return with a better prepared team.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 93-94''</ref> | Few have even heard of Subsection 7; it was little more than a technicality before ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' was captured by SPARTAN [[John-117]] and his team soon after the [[Battle of Installation 04]]. This was due to the chances of capturing even a severely crippled Covenant ship being minuscule, as the ship's crew would usually activate their self-destruct function before the completion of such attempts. Because ''Ascendant Justice'' could not be thoroughly searched, John-117 and ONI [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] instead planned to take the ship to Reach, which had already been compromised by the Covenant, and then try to return with a better prepared team.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', Chapter 9,''pages 93-94''(2003 paperback); ''page 118''(2010 paperback)</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
